A quick historical and biographical guide to

revolutions in scientific knowledge.

 periods  cultural changes  scientific revolutions
 Medieval algebraic numbers  great titration (Hindu, Sinic, Arab)
  calendar  Copernican conjecture
 Renaissance instruments  Astronomy - macrocosm
  perspective Cartesian
 Enlightenment experimentation  Geology & Biology - microcosm
  calculus  Rational Empiricism
 Modern electricity (chemistry)  Atomic theory of matter
  therapuetics  Natural Selection
 post-modern telecommunications  Radiation and genetics

 

 Scientific revolutionaries
 Events  People  dates
great titration (Hindu, Sinic, Arab)  Al Gebir, Su Tsing,  800 - 1453
Copernican conjecture  Nicholas Copernicus  1543
 Astronomy - macrocosm  Brahe, Kepler, Galileo  1580 -1635
Cartesian mathematics  Descartes, Fermat,  1640 - 1750
Geology & Biology - microcosm  DaVinci, Vesalius, von Linne  1500 - 1800
Rational Empiricism  Newton, Leibniz, Boyle  1687 - 1789
Atomic theory of matter  Lavoisier, Dalton, Mendeleev  1750 - 1865
Natural Selection  Lamark, Darwin, Wallace  1800 - 1880
Radiation and genetics  Curie, Einstein, Feynman, Watson  1905 - 1970

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